Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSCwas a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 December 1869
CountryCanada
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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions
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The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.
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A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
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Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
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We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.
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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
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The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.